Narratives Of Obeah In West Indian Literature
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Narratives Of Obeah In West Indian Literature
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Author : Janelle Rodriques
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-04-05
Narratives Of Obeah In West Indian Literature written by Janelle Rodriques and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores representations of Obeah – a name used in the English/Creole-speaking Caribbean to describe various African-derived, syncretic Caribbean religious practices – across a range of prose fictions published in the twentieth century by West Indian authors. In the Caribbean and its diasporas, Obeah often manifests in the casting of spells, the administration of baths and potions of various oils, herbs, roots and powders, and sometimes spirit possession, for the purposes of protection, revenge, health and well-being. In most Caribbean territories, the practice – and practices that may resemble it – remains illegal. Narratives of Obeah in West Indian Literature analyses fiction that employs Obeah as a marker of the Black ‘folk’ aesthetics that are now constitutive of West Indian literary and cultural production, either in resistance to colonial ideology or in service of the same. These texts foreground Obeah as a social and cultural logic both integral to and troublesome within the creation of such a thing as ‘West Indian’ literature and culture, at once a product of and a foil to Caribbean plantation societies. This book explores the presentation of Obeah as an ‘unruly’ narrative subject, one that not only subverts but signifies a lasting ‘Afro-folk’ sensibility within colonial and ‘postcolonial’ writing of the West Indies. Narratives of Obeah in West Indian Literature will be of interest to scholars and students of Caribbean Literature, Diaspora Studies, and African and Caribbean religious studies; it will also contribute to dialogues of spirituality in the wider Black Atlantic.
Narratives Of Obeah In Twentieth Century Anglophone West Indian Literature
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Author : Janelle Alicia Rodriques
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Narratives Of Obeah In Twentieth Century Anglophone West Indian Literature written by Janelle Alicia Rodriques and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Caribbean Literature In Transition 1800 1920 Volume 1
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Author : Evelyn O'Callaghan
language : en
Publisher: Caribbean Literature in Transi
Release Date : 2021-01-14
Caribbean Literature In Transition 1800 1920 Volume 1 written by Evelyn O'Callaghan and has been published by Caribbean Literature in Transi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-14 with Literary Collections categories.
This volume explores Caribbean literature from 1800-1920 across genres and in the multiple languages of the Caribbean.
Journal Of West Indian Literature
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Journal Of West Indian Literature written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Caribbean literature (English) categories.
Caribbean Literature In English
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Author : Louis James
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-30
Caribbean Literature In English written by Louis James and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Caribbean Literature in English places its subject in its precise regional context. The `Caribbean', generally considered as one area, is highly discrete in its topography, race and languages, including mainland Guyana, the Atlantic island of Barbados, the Lesser Antilles, Trinidad, and Jamaica, whose size and history gave it an early sense of separate nationhood. Beginning with Raleigh's Discoverie of...Guiana (1596), this innovative study traces the sometimes surprising evolution of cultures which shared a common experience of slavery, but were intimately related to individual local areas. The approach is interdisciplinary, examining the heritage of the plantation era, and the issues of language and racial identity it created. From this base, Louis James reassesses the phenomenal expansion of writing in the contemporary period. He traces the influence of pan-Caribbean movements and the creation of an expatriate Caribbean identity in Britain and America: `Brit'n' is considered as a West Indian island, created by `colonization in reverse'. Further sections treat the development of a Caribbean aesthetic, and the repossession of cultural roots from Africa and Asia. Balancing an awareness of the regional identity of Caribbean literature with an exploration of its place in world and postcolonial literatures, this study offers a panoramic view that has become one of the most vital of the `new literatures in English'. This accessible overview of Caribbean writing will appeal to the general reader and student alike, and particularly to all who are interested in or studying Caribbean literatures and culture, postcolonial studies, Commonwealth 'new literatures' and contemporary literature and drama.
Obeah
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Author : Hesketh Bell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
Obeah written by Hesketh Bell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Black people categories.
The Maroon Narrative
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Author : Cynthia James
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 2002
The Maroon Narrative written by Cynthia James and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Education categories.
This book analyzes the concept of the maroon to provide a better understanding of Caribbean literature.
Women Writing The West Indies 1804 1939
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Author : Evelyn O'Callaghan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-06-02
Women Writing The West Indies 1804 1939 written by Evelyn O'Callaghan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-02 with Literary Collections categories.
This pioneering study surveys nineteenth- and twentieth-century narratives of the West Indies written by white women, English and Creole. It introduces a fascinating wealth of relatively unknown material and constitutes a timely interrogation of the supposed homogeneity of Caribbean discourse, especially with regard to 'race' and gender.
Caribbean Literature In Transition 1800 1920 Volume 1
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Author : Evelyn O'Callaghan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-14
Caribbean Literature In Transition 1800 1920 Volume 1 written by Evelyn O'Callaghan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The emphasis is on narrative, including an enormous range of genres, in varying venues, and in multiple languages of the Caribbean. Essays examine lesser-known authors and writing previously marginalized as nonliterary: popular writing in newspapers and pamphlets; fiction and poetry such as romances, sentimental novels, and ballads; non-elite memoirs and letters, such as the narratives of the enslaved or the working classes, especially women. Many contributions are comparative, multilingual, and regional. Some infer the cultural presence of subaltern groups within the texts of the dominant classes. Almost all of the chapters move easily between time periods, linking texts, writers, and literary movements in ways that expand traditional notions of literary influence and canon formation. Using literary, cultural, and historical analyses, this book provides a complete re-examination of early Caribbean literature.
Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature
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Author : Supriya M. Nair
language : en
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Release Date : 2012-12-01
Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature written by Supriya M. Nair and has been published by Modern Language Association this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume recognizes that the most challenging aspect of introducing students to anglophone Caribbean literature--the sheer variety of intellectual and artistic traditions in Western and non-Western cultures that relate to it--also offers the greatest opportunities to teachers. Courses on anglophone literature in the Caribbean can consider the region's specific histories and contexts even as they explore common issues: the legacies of slavery, colonialism, and colonial education; nationalism; exile and migration; identity and hybridity; class and racial conflict; gender and sexuality; religion and ritual. This volume considers how the availability of materials shapes syllabuses and recommends print, digital, and visual resources for teaching. The essays examine a host of topics, including the following: the development of multiethnic populations in the Caribbean and the role of various creole languages in the literature oral art forms, such as dub poetry and reggae music the influence of anglophone literature in the Caribbean on literary movements outside it, such as the Harlem Renaissance and black British writing Carnival religious rituals and beliefs specific genres such as slave narratives and autobiography film and drama the economics of rum Many essays list resources for further reading, and the volume concludes with a section of additional teaching resources.